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Having captured six slave ships in the year preceding his first mission to Dahomey, Forbes was eager to visit this one country which had chosen to ignore the foreign request to end the slave trade. His account provides information not only on the country itself and the manners and customs of the people, but includes a large appendix with vocabularies of the Vahie and Dahoman languages.Dahomey was an African kingdom (located in the area of the present-day country of Benin) which lasted from about 1600 until 1894, when the last chief Behanzin was defeated by the French and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire
Ouvrage illustré de superbes planches pour certaines en couleur. Avec de fort intéressantes annexes contenant en particulier un long texte et une planche sur le langage et l'écriture Vahie ou Vei que le lieutenant Forbes découvre le premier et la langue du Dahomey (notions et lexique)